Preliminary Guide to the Robert O. Easton Collection

Preliminary arrangement and description by Kirsten A. Tambo; latest revision D. Tambo
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Preliminary Guide to the Robert O. Easton Collection, ca. 1911-1990s [bulk dates 1940s-1990s]

Collection number: SBHC Mss 6

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara
Processed by:
Preliminary arrangement and description by Kirsten A. Tambo; latest revision D. Tambo
Date Completed:
Aug. 6, 2007
Encoded by:
A. Demeter
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Robert O. Easton Collection
Dates: ca. 1911-1990s
Bulk Dates: 1940s-1990s
Collection number: SBHC Mss 6
Creator: Easton, Robert Olney
Collection Size: ca. 40 linear feet (48 document boxes, 20 cartons, 2 oversize boxes, 4 audiocassettes, 1 videotape).
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Correspondence, research and subject files (including Chumash, natural resources, wilderness, and women's issues), drafts of writings, and related materials of the Santa Barbara author of Black Tide (on the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill), Love and War: Pearl Harbor through V-J Day, and the acclaimed multi-volume Saga of California series. Also includes materials on Sisquoc Ranch and Zaca Lake.
Physical location: Boxes 1-68 (Annex 2); Boxes 69-70 (Del Sur Oversize); AV (Annex 2 - filed by format).
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

None. Most materials are stored off-site; advance notice required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Robert O. Easton Collection. SBHC Mss 6. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Robert O. Easton, 1972 -1996; additions by the Easton family, ca. 2000-2002.

Biography

The following biographical information is taken from the guide to the Robert Olney Papers at the University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center:
"Robert Olney Easton, prominent author and environmental activist, was born in San Francisco, California in 1915. He was the son of Robert Easton Sr. and Ethel Olney Easton. He was also the grandson of Warren Olney, one of the founders of the Sierra Club. Easton attended Stanford University in 1933 and 1934 and earned his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University in 1938. Between 1938 and 1939, Easton did postgraduate work at Stanford University.
"Easton's literary career began in 1939, when he became associate editor of Coast Magazine. He became a professional free-lance writer in 1941 and published a series of short stories in The Atlantic a year later. Easton's first book, The Happy Man, was published in 1943. A modern western novel based upon his experiences as a California ranch hand, it was well received by critics and established him as a literary talent. Easton enlisted in the Army during World War II and saw combat in Germany.
"Between 1946 and 1950, Easton co-founded and co-edited the Lampasas (Texas) Dispatch. He continued to free-lance throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, contributing short stories to magazines such as Colliers, True, and The Saturday Evening Post. Of particular interest are his stories about Fred Meyer Schroder, an American adventurer who traveled in California, the Yukon, and China, between the 1890s and 1917. Published in True and The Saturday Evening Post, these stories were the foundation of his later works on Schroder.
"Easton broadened the scope of his writing during the 1960s. Lord of the Beasts, a biography of American adventurer Charles "Buffalo" Jones co-written with MacKenzie Brown, was published in 1961. In 1963, his article Guns of the American West appeared in The Book of the American West. That same year, he wrote the unpublished article Right Turn in the Rockies, a study of the political far right in the Rocky Mountain region. The Hearing, a novel about the Red Scare of the 1950s, and California Condor: Vanishing American, a book concerning the threatened extinction of the California condor (co-written with Dick Smith), were published in 1964. Easton also edited the anthology Max Brand's Best Stories (1967) and with MacKenzie Brown, co-edited Bullying the Moqui (1969), which concerned Charles F. Lummis and his exposure of abuses on the Hopi Indian Reservation.
"Easton continued to be a productive writer for the duration of his life. Max Brand: The Big Westerner (1970) is a biography of Easton's father-in-law Frederick Faust, a famed western writer. Black Tide: The Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Its Consequences (1972) was his second work exemplifying his concern with environmental issues. After years of research, Easton wrote two books in succession about Fred Meyer Schroder, Guns, Gold, and Caravans (1978) and China Caravans: An American Adventurer in Old China (1982). Easton turned to historical fiction in the 1980s and 1990s, writing the Saga of California trilogy: This Promised Land (1982), The Power and the Glory (1989), and Blood and Money (1998). He also co-wrote and co-edited three works with his wife Jane Easton: Love and War (1991), Max Brand's Best Poems (1992), and Collected Stories of Max Brand (1994).
"Robert Easton married Jane Faust, the daughter of western writer Frederick Faust (Max Brand) in 1940. They had four daughters: Joan, Katherine, Ellen, and Jane. In addition to his literary activity, Easton was an English instructor at Santa Barbara City College (1959-1965) and a writing and publishing consultant with the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme, California (1961-1969). He was involved in efforts to save the California condor from extinction, helping to found refuges for this bird at Sisquoc Sanctuary (1937) and Los Padres National Forest (1968). He was also active in the civic and environmental affairs of Santa Barbara, California, his adopted hometown.
"Robert Olney Easton passed away on November 14, 1999."
Additonal biographical information may be found in the UCSB Robert Olney Easton oral history: Life and Work (box 46) and in Series I (boxes 1-2) of this collection.

Scope and Content of Collection

Arrangement

The collection contains the following series:
Series I: Biographical/Personal. Boxes 1-2. Includes bibliographies, articles about Easton, and other.
Series II: Correspondence. Boxes 3-12. Largely professional. Some correspondence also has been left where found, in other series such as Issues and Writings.
Series III: Issues/Subject Files. Boxes 13-19. Includes:
  • Natural Resources (Cachuma, Water)
  • Wilderness
  • Women's Issues
  • Miscellany
Series IV: Writings. Includes manuscript drafts, research files, correspondence, notes, annotated photocopies, reviews, and related materials.
  • Articles, shorter works, contributions, book reviews, and technical/military writings and reports (arranged alphabetically by title). Box 20.
  • Monographs / Longer Works. Boxes 21-68.
    • Black Tide (1972) / Oil Spill Files - incl. articles, bibliographies, correspondence, documents and reports, environmental movements and agencies, historical and background material, oil industry files, press releases, research notes, and photographs.
    • Bullying the Moqui, editor with Mackenzie Brown (1968)
    • California Condor: Vanishing American, with Dick Smith (1964)
    • China Caravans (1982)
    • Collected Stories of Max Brand (1994)
    • Guns, Gold, and Caravans (1978)
    • The Happy Man (1943; 50th anniversary ed. 1993)
    • The Hearing (1964)
    • Life and Work [UCSB oral history] (1988)
    • Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones, with Mackenzie Brown (1961)
    • Love and War (1991)
    • Man in the Middle (1996; unpublished?)
    • Max Brand, the Big Westerner (1970)
    • Max Brand's Best Poems (1992)
    • Max Brand's Best Stories, editor (1967)
    • One Writer's World. Introductory essays and selections from earlier writings (unpublished)
    • Saga of California Series. Includes numerous files on the Chumash Indians, as well as Blacks and the Spanish in California
      • Vol. 1: This Promised Land (1982)
      • Vol. 2: Power and Glory (1989)
      • Vol. 3: Blood and Money (1998)
      • Vol. 4: Love and Destiny (unfinished)
      • Other related files - incl. research files on the Chumash Indians
    • U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory - technical reports, et al, 1960s
    • Western Stories and Other
Series V: Oversize. Boxes 69-70. Includes awards and articles in larger magazine format.
Series VI: Audiovisual. Individually numbered. Includes audiotapes - mainly radio interviews, and videotape re Love and War.
Acronyms used in the guide:
  • ROE = Robert Olney Easton
Special also has first and signed editions of Easton's works, which have been cataloged separately and which can be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog. Works which Special Collections lacked or which have significant notes or marginalia also have been cataloged separately. Some, such as government publications, have been transferred to other areas of the UCSB Libraries.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Easton, Robert Olney
Ecology & environment
Santa Barbara County (Calif.)

Related Collections

At UCSB:
  • Easton [Robert E.] Collection, ca. 1893-1968. Mainly papers and ledgers re Easton's business dealings, especially the Sisquoc Ranch Co., central coast of California. (SBHC Mss 55).
  • Easton [Robert O.] Oral History. Recollections of Easton [son of Robert E. Easton] re his youth on the Sisquoc Ranch and the real life experiences he used in writing his novels. Also, his Harvard University days during the Depression, where he edited The Harvard Lampoon, his military service in World War II, and the relationship he had with his literary mentor and father-in-law, western author Max Brand. (OH 9).
  • Sisquoc Ranch Photograph Album, ca. 1899-1900. Approximately 76 b/w images and handwritten captions, mainly of Sisquoc Ranch [Rancho Sisquoc], Santa Barbara County, California, including the land, buildings, work such as branding cattle, and the Lucius E. Greene and Vicente Castro families. (Wyles SC 588).
At Other Institutions:
  • Santa Barbara Natural History Museum. Materials from Easton, primarily relating to the California condor.
  • Texas Tech University, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Robert Olney Easton Papers. Contains photocopied manuscript (ca. 1963) of Part Seven of The Book of the American West, entitled "Guns of the American West."
  • University of Arizona Library Special Collections. Papers relating to Robert O. Easton's Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones (Collection Number AZ 313).
  • University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Frederick Schiller Faust [aka Max Brand] Papers (BANC MSS C-H 69). Much of Easton's work involving Max Brand, his father-in-law, is housed at the Bancroft Library.
  • University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Robert Olney Easton Papers (Coll. No. 02833). The collection contains correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and other materials concerning his life and literary career. Also materials relating to Fred Meyer Schroder.

 

Series I:  Biographical/Personal

Scope and Content Note

Includes bibliographies, articles about Easton, photos and commentary about Sisquoc Ranch area where he grew up, talks by him.
Box 1: 1

Awards, Honors, Tributes

Box 1: 2

Bibliographical

Box 1: 3

Biographical information about ROE - Who's Who, articles, and other

Box 1: 4

Book Report

Box 1: 5

Coat of Arms

Box 1: 6

Contemporary Authors submission

Box 1: 7

European Diary (photocopy), 1937

Box 1: 8

Events

 

Family

Box 2: 1

Robert E. Easton (father)

Box 2: 2

Joan and Ellen (daughters)

Box 2: 3

Faust, Frederick [Max Brand; father-in-law of ROE] - copies of correspondence, to/from ROE, 1941-1943

Box 2: 4

Harvard

Box 2: 5

Lampasas, TX

Box 2: 6

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Box 2: 7

Sisquoc Ranch: The Forgotten Land - 28 b/w photos (taken by Dick Smith?)

Box 2: 8

Sisquoc Ranch Photograph Album - transcript of an interview of ROE, by UCSB oral historian David Russell, re analysis of the photos [Wyles SC 588]

Box 2: 9-11

Speeches and Talks

Box 2: 12

Teaching Credentials

Box 2: 13-14

UCSB

Box 2: 15

UC Extension - Education XBII: The History of Education

Box 2: 16

World War II

Box 2: 17

Zaca Lake - 20 b/w snapshots, re barbecue and ranch, 1914

Box 2: 18

Miscellany

 

Series II:  Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Largely professional. Some correspondence also has been left where found, in other series such as Issues and Writings.
 

Correspondent Files

Scope and Content Note

Incoming and Outgoing.
Box 3

Authors Guild, Inc., 1970s

Box 3

Bloodworth, Bill, 1995-1997

Box 3

Bottoms, James A. (Bud), 1972-1984

Box 3

Cady, Howard, 1968

Box 3

Callahan, Joe, 1970

Box 3

"Central America" Shipwreck, 1990-1992

Box 3

Community Environmental Council (CEC), 1992-1993

Box 3

Contemporary Authors, 1990-1991

Box 3

Explorers Club, 1979-1983

Box 3

Fallout Shelter, 1961

Box 3

Farley, G. M. (ed. of Zane Grey Collector), 1968-1975

Box 3

Fox, David L., 1988-1999

Box 3

Gale Research, 1993

Box 3

Haslam, Gerald (Gerry), 1992-1997

Box 4

Hetzler, Rev. Leo, 1991-1999

Box 4

Homeless, Inc., 1990

Box 4

Huntington Library, 1983-1984

Box 4

Lagomarsino next hit , Robert J. (California state senator), 1968-1990

Box 4

Levine, Allan, 1985

Box 4

Loynd, Ray, 1969

Box 4

Lujan, Manuel, Jr. (U. S. congressman), 1984

Box 4

McMillan, Ian I., 1985-1989

Box 4

Maeda, Brian T. (film producer), 1986-1987

Box 4

Martinez, Leo (Santa Barbara politician), 1974-1976

Box 4

Meredith, Scott, 1968-1970

Box 5

Millar, Ken (author, aka Ross Macdonald), ca. 1970-1996

Box 5

Myrick, David, 1989, 1993

Box 5

National Public TV, 1993

Box 5

Nature Conservancy, 1970-1971

 

Nolan, Bill

Box 5

1964-1999

Box 6

Best Poems

Box 6

Pearlman, Nancy (environmental broadcaster), ca. 1985-1991

Box 6

Rice, Richard B., 1992-1998

Box 6

Rivers, Bob, 1990-1991

Box 6

R.O.M.E. Investments, 1971-1976

Box 6

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1986-1994

Box 6

Santa Barbara Citizens for Environmental Defense (SBCED), 1989-1990

Box 6

SKS Productions, 1968-1969

Box 6

Smith, Gibbs, 1989-1996

Box 6

South Dakota Review, 1986-1991

Box 6

University of Nebraska Press, ca. 1986-1996

Box 6

Wilderness Society, 1968-1987

 

Publishers and Agents

Box 6

Benjamin, Ben (Hollywood agent), 1964-1970

Box 6

Brandt & Brandt (ROE's first agent), 1942, 1947

Box 6

H. N. Swanson, Inc. Agency (Hollywood), 1961-1971

Box 7

Harper's Magazine, 1963

Box 7

Littauer, Kenneth (Littauer & Wilkinson), 1964-1971

Box 7

Olding, Dorothy (Harold Ober Associates), 1970-1986

Box 7

Reader's Digest, 1978-1990

Box 7

True (magazine) - Fred Schroder articles, ca. 1954-1962

Box 7

University of Oklahoma Press, 1967-1989

 

Miscellaneous Correspondence

Box 8

1940s

Box 8

1950s-1960s

Box 8

1970-1974

Box 9

1975-1978

Box 10

1979-1983

Box 11

1984-1990

Box 12

1991-1996, n.d.

 

Series III:  Issues / Subject Files

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, clippings, reports, and related.
Box 13

Natural Resources (Cachuma, Water)

 

Wilderness Files - includes the following:

 

General

Box 14

Citizens Planning Association of Santa Barbara

Box 14

Community Environmental Council (CEC)

Box 14

Cuyama Group

Box 14

Dick Smith Wilderness

Box 14

Forest Service

Box 14

Litigation

Box 14

Lompoc Groups

Box 14

Los Padres - Irwin and Pat

Box 14

Los Padres Patrol

Box 14

Marshall, Gene

 

Mining

Box 14

Phosphate Mine

Box 14

Strip Mining

Box 15

Motorbike Ordinance

Box 15

Mountain Bikes

Box 15

Murphy, Sen. George

Box 15

Santa Barbara Environmental Defense Center (SBCED), 1970-1980s

Box 15

Santa Maria Group, 1960s

Box 15

Skofield Park

Box 15

Vehicles

Box 15

Wilderness Society

Box 15

Miscellany

Box 16-17

San Rafael

Box 18

Women's Issues

 

Miscellany (smaller files)

Box 19

Brand, Max

Box 19

Chase, Pearl

Box 19

Condors

Box 19

Environment

Box 19

Historical Sites

Box 19

Mission Canyon Association

Box 19

Planning - Population Growth

Box 19

Ranches - Ag. Preserve

Box 19

Rancho Sisquoc

Box 19

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

 

Series IV:  Writings and Research Files

Scope and Content Note

Includes manuscript drafts, research files, correspondence, notes, annotated photocopies, reviews, and related materials.
 

Articles, Shorter Works, and Contributions to Other Works

Scope and Content Note

Incl. manuscript drafts and copies of print versions
Box 20

"Back to the Future" - about the Chumash, Santa Barbara News Press, Apr. 22, 1990

Box 20

"Banker Clayton's Interest," Collier's, Dec. 9, 1950

Box 20

"Blowout," in Tales of Santa Barbara, comp. by Steve Gilbar and Dean Stewart, 1994

Box 20

"Bonaparte McPhail," Collier's, Aug. 26, 1944

Box 20

Book of the American West - editor in chief Jay Monaghan, "Guns Section" by ROE, 1963

Box 20

"Border Town," Holiday, Dec. 1950

Box 20

"The Bull Artist Who Saved the Buffalo," True, Sept. 1964

Box 20

"The Cave Tigers of Hong Kong," True, Jan. 1953

Box 20

"The Condor Controversy: An On-the-Spot Report," by Dick Smith and ROE, Animal Life, 1965

Box 20

Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series - v. 14 incl. ROE, 1991

Box 20

"The Death of Malunga," by Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, July 1953

Box 20

"Death of the Bullet-Proof Bandit," by Fred Meyer Schroeder and ROE, True, July 1957

Box 20

"Dynamite's Day Off: A Story," The Atlantic, May 1942

Box 20

"An Eagle in the Sky," Lincoln-Mercury Times, Jan-Feb. 1950

Box 20

"Early Catlle Drives," La Reata (Santa Barbara Coral), Fall 1984

Box 20

"Escape with a Mint," by Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton, True, [1950s?]

Box 20

"Everybody Wins in Suez," [unpublished? n.d.]

Box 20

"Farmer Stiles," Holiday, Dec. 1948

Box 20

"Faro," Collier's, Nov. 6, 1948

Box 20

"Flossie and Arnold," [unpublished?]

Box 20

"The G.I. Farmhands of World War II," South Dakota Review, Spring 1991

Box 20

"The Happiest Man: A Story," Atlantic, Nov. 1942

Box 20

"He Lassoed Africa," True, May 1963

Box 20

"Italian Heartland," Lincoln-Mercury Times, Mar-Apr. 1952

Box 20

"Jim Gildea," Gildea Resource Center, Community Environmental Council, Special 25th Anniversary Section [of newsletter?], Spring 1995

Box 20

"Lampasa Revisited," re ROE's visit after his post-WWII experiences as founder of the Lampasas Dispatch newspaper, Lampasas Record, May 16, 1974

Box 20

"Lampasa, Texas," Ford Times, [ca. 1949]

Box 20

"Lampoon," Harvard Class Album, 1938

Box 20

"The Last Sea Otter Hunt," True, [ca. 1954]

Box 20

"Legend of Shorm: Involuntary Invocation to the Rain Gods," Esquire, Sept. 1956

Box 20

"Locked Gates and Homesteaders," Los Padres Notes, Fall 1988

Box 20

"The Man Who Went Back," Collier's, May 8, 1948

Box 20

"Midland School for Boys," Coast, Feb. 1940

Box 20

"Oil Island" - outline, 1957

Box 20

"Pyramids of Shensi," by Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton, True, [ca. 1953]

Box 20

"Quick and the Cat," Argosy, May 1952; also Magpie, May 1953

Box 20

"Return of the Great Raptor," Santa Barbara Magazine, Sept/Oct. 1993

Box 20

"Right Turn in the Rockies," unpublished, 1963

Box 20

"Rincon Island No. 1" - outline, 1957

Box 20

"The River," Collier's, Jan. 29, 1949

Box 20

"The Santa Barbara Earthquake: Three Episodes and an Epilogue," Noticias, Spring 1990

Box 20

Santa Barbara News-Press - Articles

Box 20

"Santa Barbarans Cite an 11th Commandment: 'Thous Shall Not Abuse the Earth'," New York Times Magazine, Oct. 12, 1969

Box 20

"School for Spartans," The Coast, Feb. 1940

Box 20

"Sea Lion Champ," Nation's Business, Apr. 1952

Box 20

"Sierra Club Beginnings," Sierra Club Bulletin, Dec. 1969

Box 20

"Sierran Anecdote," Harvard Lampoon, Dec. 5, 1936

Box 20

"The Silver Bullet," [unpublished? ca. 1940s]

Box 20

"The Snake Dance," The Californians (also includes other correspondence with editors), vol. 11, no. 1, [1994?]

Box 20

"The Soul of Frederick Faust," Westways, June 1978

Box 20

"Strike at Seventymile," Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, July 1955

Box 20

"Unforgettable Frederic Faust," Reader's Digest, Dec. 1985

Box 20

"The Voice of Robert Easton," from UCSB oral history, The Californians, vol. 11, no. 6, [1994]

Box 20

"War Boom in the West," about the growth of the aviation industry in southern California, The Coast, [Feb. 1940]

Box 20

"When the United States Invaded Russia," [unpublished?], n.d.

Box 20

"Wild Camel Hunt in Tibet," Fred Meyer Schroder and ROE, True, Dec. 1955

Box 20

"Wild Challenge," Argosy, Feb. 1952; revised Oct. 1994

Box 20

"The Wind of Pelican Island: A Story," The Atlantic, Oct. 1942

Box 20

"Women and Dynamite," The Atlantic, July 1942

 

Miscellany

Box 20

Book Reviews of Other Works

Box 20

"Early Stuff" - excerpts and early versions of unidentified works, n.d.

Box 20

Letters to Editors

 

Monographs / Longer Works

 

Black Tide / Oil Spill Files

 

Black Tide (1972)

Box 21

Correspondence

Box 21

Delacorte Press File

Box 21

Manuscript pages

Box 21

Manuscript - charts

Box 21

Publicity and Promotion

Box 21

Reviews

Box 22

Manuscript - typescript (in clamshell box)

 

Notebooks

Box 23

Working Notebook, Mar. 20-June 2, 1969

Box 23

Working Notebooks (2), June 2-Nov. 25, 1969

Box 23

Working Notebook, Nov. 26, 1969-Jan. 28, 1970

Box 23

Working Notebook, Jan. 28, 1970 - ?

Box 23

Working Notebook, Jan-Dec. 1970

Box 23

Working Notebooks (Books I-III), Jan. 28-Nov. 23, 1970

Box 23

Working Notebooks (Books IV-VI), Jan. 28, 1970-Jan. 28, 1971

Box 23

Symposium, Dec. 17, 1970

Box 23

External Notes, 1969

Box 23

Reference Cards, n.d.

 

Oil Spill Research Files

 

Anniversary of Santa Barbara Oil Spill (articles)

Box 24

January 1979 (10 year anniversary)

Box 24

January 1984 (15 year anniversary)

Box 24

January 1989 (20 year anniversary)

 

Articles (magazine and newspaper - about oil)

Box 24

1969 Jan-May

Box 25

1969 June-Dec.

Box 26

1969 Dec.

Box 26

Undated, ca. 1969

Box 26

1970

Box 27

1971-1972

Box 28

1973-1981

Box 29

1982-1983

Box 29

Undated

Box 29

Life - article and reactions

Box 29

Bibliographical and Reference Materials, 1958-1977

Box 29

Calendars of Events, 1965-1969

 

City Council, Santa Barbara

Box 30

Oil Drilling - Councilman Alan Eschenroeder's Statements, 19 Dec. 1969

Box 30

Oil drilling operations and relocations - Santa Ynez Project, 1972-74

Box 30

Oil Leasing, County Study of 1967

Box 30

Oil Spill, Santa Barbara Channel, 1969-1970

Box 30

Platforms "C" and "Henry" - Environmental Quality Advisory Board, 1971

Box 30-31

"Protection of the Public Interest in the California Coastline," parts 1 & 2 - presented to the State Assembly, Dec. 1969

Box 31

Sanctuary (Oil), 1966-1971

Box 31

Santa Barbara Channel Advisory Committee, 1968-69

Box 31

U.S. Geological Survey of the Channel Region, 1969-1970

Box 31

U.S. House of Representatives Interior Committee hearing on Channel Oil Legislation, 14-15 Sept. 1970

Box 31

Unproductive Oil Leases, 1968-1970

Box 31

Conflict of Interest, 1969-1971

 

Correspondence - Incoming and Outgoing

Box 31

1955

Box 31

1969-1970

Box 32

1971-1973

Box 32

1984

Box 32

Undated

 

Documents and Reports

Box 32

AD HOC Committee - Report of the AD HOC Committee: State Regulations and Inspection Practices, Oil and Gas Operations and Oil Pollution, June 1969

Box 32

Allen, Alan A. - Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 20 May 1969

Box 32

Bagnis, R., et al. - Problems of Toxiants in Marine Food Products, ca. 1970

Box 32

Brown, Lt. George, III - Santa Barbara Channel Oil Pollution Incident: On-Scene-Commander's Report, 2 vols., 1969

Box 32

Burton, John L. - Press Release, 11 June 1969

Box 32

California Coastline Conservation and Development Commission - Summary of Provisions of Sieroty-Dunlap Coastline Legislation, ca. 1973

Box 32

California Department of Fish and Game - Interim Report: Santa Barbara Oil Leak, 15 Dec. 1969

Box 33

California Department of Fish and Game - Progress Report on Wildlife Affected by the S.B. Channel Oil Spill, 28 Jan-31 Mar. 1969

Box 33

California Department of Fish and Game - Second Progress Report on Wildlife Affected by the S.B. Channel Oil Spill, April-May 1969

Box 33

California Legislature - Assembly Bill No. 80, June 1969

Box 33

California Legislature - Assembly Joint Resolution No. 2, Jan. 1970

Box 33

Citizens Committee for the Protection of San Miguel Island Seals - Observations, June 1969

Box 33

City of Santa Barbara - Report on Offshore Drilling Incident: Santa Barbara Channel, ca. 1969

Box 33

Clyde, George H. - Letter to President Richard Nixon, 30 Dec. 1969

Box 33

Clyde, George H. - Statement to State Senate Natural Resources and Governmental Efficiency Committees, 18 Feb. 1969

Box 33

Commander, Eleventh Coast Guard District - Local Notices to Mariners, Nov. 1969, Jan. 1971

Box 33

Commonwealth Club of California - Confidential Study Section Minutes, 25 Sept. 1969

Box 33

Connell, J. H. - Submission to the Royal Committee on Oil Exploitation on the Grea Barrier Reef, May 1971

Box 33

Council on Environmental Quality - Environmental Quality, Aug. 1970

Box 33

Council on Environmental Quality - National Oil and Hazardous Materials Pollution Contingency Plan, June 1970

Box 33

Council on Environmental Quality - Toxic Substances, Apr. 1971

Box 33

County Recorder, Alameda County, CA - Death Certificate of Richard S. Peterson, Sept. 1969

Box 33

Cowgill, Carol - Union Oil Co.'s Leaky Lease, 1969

Box 33

Cranston, Alan - U.S. Senator Alan Cranston Reports to Californians, Apr-May 1972

Box 33

Curry, Robert R. - Report to the Subcommittee on Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works, U.S. Senate, 24 Feb. 1969

Box 33

Curry, Robert R. - Statement to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels of the Interior Committee, 20 May 1969

Box 33

Dillingham Corporation - Summary of Systems Study of Oil Spill Cleanup Procedures, 1969

Box 33

Doumani, George A., and Price, Nancy C. - Blowout in Santa Barbara Channel: Background and Chronology, 10 Aug. 1970

Box 33

Drinkwater, Barbara, et al - Santa Barbara's Oiled Birds, ca. 1970

Box 33

Eissler, Fred - Sierra Club Statement in Support of S.1219, before the Senate Subcommittee on Materials, Minerals and Fuels, 20 May 1969

Box 33

Eissler, Fred - Statement of the Sierra Club before the Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, 25 Feb. 1969

Box 33

Enjay Chemical Corporation - Corexit 7664 Oil Dispersant: A Report on Research, Development and Performance, May 1969

Box 33

Environmental Quality Advisory Board of Santa Barbara, CA - Report of Activities of the Environmental Quality Advisory Board for the Period July 1969-Dec. 1970, 1971

Box 33

Ferry, W. H. - Statement to Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs, 24 Apr. 1969

Box 33

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Toxicity of Marine Organisms Caused by Pollutants, 1970

Box 33

Ford Foundation - Exploring Energy Choices: A Preliminary Report, 1974

Box 33

Foster, M., et al - Santa Barbara Oil Pollution, 1969: Final Report Dealing with the Early Stages of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969

Box 34

General Research Corporation - Estimates of Surface Pollution Resulting from Submarine Oil Seeps at Platform A and Coal Oil Point, Nov. 1969

Box 34

Gilmore, George A., et al. - Systems Study of Oil Cleanup Procedures Vol. 1: Analysis of Oil Spills and Control Materials, Feb. 1970

Box 34

Guardian Chemical Corporation - Polycomplex A-11, n.d.

Box 34

Hearst, Peter J. - Statement for the Record of the Senate Hearing on S.1219, Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels, May 1969

Box 34

previous hit Lagomarsino , Robert J. - Press Release No. 83, 2 June 1969

Box 34

Le Boeuf, Burney J. - Oil Contamination and Elephant Seal Mortality: A "Negative" Finding, 1970

Box 34

MacGillivray, W. Don - Press Release No. 20, 3 June 1969

Box 34

MacGillivray, W. Don - Reports from Sacramento, 1969

Box 34

Mead, Walter J., et al. - The Economic Cost of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1970

Box 34

Mead, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - Estimates of the Economic Cost of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill (table), Dec. 1970

Box 34

Mead, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - A National Defense Petroleum Reserve Alternative to Oil Import Quotas, Aug. 1970

Box 34

Meed, W. J., and P. E. Sorensen - The Principal External Costs and Benefits of Marine Mineral Recovery, 23 April 1970

Box 34

Miller, Alan S., and Phil Farnham - Ecology and Politics Manual, 1970

Box 34

Morrison, Harry - Statement of Western Oil and Gas Assoc. Regarding S.1219 before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials and Fuels of the U.S. Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee , 20 May 1969

Box 34

Muskie, Edmund S. - Opening Statement by Senator Muskie: Hearings of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, Senate Committee on Public Works, 5 Feb. 1969

Box 34

National Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Engineering - Waste Management Concepts for the Coastal Zone, 1970

Box 34

New York State Senate and Assembly - Proposed Amendment to Article 14 of the Constitution, Feb. 1969

Box 34

Nixon, Richard - Message to Congress regarding Santa Barbara Channel, 1970

Box 34

Office of Science and Technology - Report of Special Panel on the Future of the Union Oil Lease, 1969

Box 34

Orr, Robert T. - The Gray Whale Crisis of 1969, 1969

Box 34

Pacific Northwest Laboratories - Review of the Santa Barbara Channel Oil Pollution Incident, 1969

Box 34

Pecora, W. T., and Russell G. Wayland - Notes on the Pecora-Wayland Letter, ca. 1970

Box 34

People's Lobby - Summary of the "Clean Environment Act," ca. June 1972

Box 34

Portland Harbor Pollution Abatement Committee - Information Booklet: Oil Spills, 1968

Box 34

Potter, D.S. - Memo to the Steering Committee of California Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources, 18 June 1969

Box 34

President's Panel on Oil Spills - Offshore Mineral Resources: A Challenge and an Opportunity, 1969

Box 34

President's Panel on Oil Spills = The Oil Spill Problem, 1969

Box 34

Rains, Omer L. - Senator Omer L. Rains: Report to the 18th District, Summer 1975

Box 34

Reed, David - Testimony, ca. 1969

Box 34

Residents of Santa Barbara - Citizens' Suit against the Department of the Interior, 2 July 1969

Box 34

Sanders, Howard - Testimony before the Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee, 22 July 1970

Box 34

Sanders, Dr. N. K. - The Santa Barbara Oil Spill-Impact on Environment, ca. 1969

Box 34

Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce - The Santa Barbara Oil Story, ca. 1969-1970

Box 34

Santa Barbara Citizens Commission - Civil Disorders, 15 Sept. 1970

Box 34

[Santa Barbara] S.B. Oil Control Coordination Committee - Rules and Procedures of the S.B. Oil Control Coordination Committee, 11 Nov. 1969

Box 35

Secretary of the Interior & Secretary of Transportation - Oil Pollution, Feb. 1968

Box 35

Sharp, Robert C. - Comments by R. C. Sharp on Draft Environmental Statement No. 74-90, 6-8 Feb. 1975

Box 35

Sharp, Robert C. - Remarks by Robert C. Sharp before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. Senate, 18 Apr. 1972

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Progress Report 1968, 1 Feb. 1969

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Report 1969, 1 Feb. 1970

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Annual Report 1970, May 1971

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Event Information Report: Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1969

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Event Notification Report, ca. 1968

Box 35

Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-Lived Phenomena - Information about Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, ca. 1969

Box 36

Straughan, Dale - Statement at Dept. of Interior Hearing on Proposed Leasing Offshore Western Louisiana, 18 July 1970

Box 36

Sun Oil Co. - To Colonel Norman E. Pehrson, Sept. 1969

Box 36

Sylvester, Arthur G., et al - Earthquake Swarm in the S.B. Channel, CA, 1968, 1970

Box 36

Teague, Charles M. - From the Office of Charles M. Teague of California, 28 Mar. 1973

Box 36

Teague, Charles M. - Teague Environmental Report, Oct. 1973

Box 36

Teague, Charles M. - Washington Reports, 1969-1971

Box 36

U.F. Chemical Corp. - Information Regarding "Oil Spill Fluff," ca. 1968

Box 36

Union Oil Co. - 1970 Annual Report, 1971

Box 36

United States Coast Guard: Treasury Dept. - Rules of the Road: International Inland, 1965

Box 36

United States Comptroller General - Investigation of the Handling and Control of Petroleum Products in Southeast Asia, 28 July 1970

Box 36

United States Congress - Congressional Record, 19 Jan. 1970; 25-26 Jan. 1972

Box 36

United States Congress - The Economy, Energy, and the Environment, Sept. 1970

Box 36

United States Congress - Federal Land-Use Legislation, 1975

Box 36

United States Congress - H.R. 4148, 8 Oct. 1969

Box 36

United States Congress - Public Law 91-224, 3 Apr. 1970

Box 36

United States Department of the Interior - Notices to Lessees and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas Leases in the Outer Continental Shelf, Pacific Region, 1970

Box 36

United States Dept. of the Interior - Plain Facts about Oil, 1963

Box 36

United States Dept. of the Interior - U.S. Petroleum through 1980, 1968

Box 36

U.S. Departments of Interior, Transportation, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfare, and Office of Emergency Planning - National Multi-Agency Oil & Hazardous Materials Pollution Contingency Plan, 1968

Box 36

United States Geological Survey - Agenda for Public Hearing on Draft Environmental Statement, Oil & Gas Development in the S.B. Channel..., 25-27 Aug. 1975

Box 36

United States Geological Survey - Department of the Interior News Releases, (Feb. 1969-July 1970)

Box 36

United States Geological Survey - "Environmental Impact Statement," 1971

Box 37

United States Geological Survey - Geology, Petroleum Development, and Seismicity of the Santa Barbara Channel Region, CA (2 copies with marginalia), 1969

Box 37

United States Geological Survey - Incidents in the Outer Continental Shelf Resulting in Injury and Property or Environmental Damage 1953-1971, 1971

Box 37

United States Geological Survey - Permanent Effects of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 17 Aug. 1970

Box 37

United States Geological Survey - Recorded Oil Spill Incidents Involving over 2000 Barrels, 1970

Box 37

United States District Court, Central District of CA - Complaint for Damages Resulting from Oil Well Blowout, 2 June 1969

Box 37

U.S. District Court, Central District of CA - County of Santa Barbara et al. vs. Walter J. Hickel, Sec. of the Interior et al. - Affidavit of John R. Fraser, ca. 1969

Box 37

U.S. District Court, Central District of CA - Order Affirming Decision of the Secretary of Interior and Dismissing Complaint, Jan. 1973

Box 37

United States House of Representatives - Oil Spillage - Santa Barbara, CA: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Flood Control and Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors of the Committee on Public Works , 14 Feb. 1969

Box 37

United States House of Representatives - Water Quality Improvement Act of 1970, 1970

Box 37

United States Senate - Congressional Record, 25 Apr. 1969

Box 37

United States Senate - Congressional Record: S-10467, 12 Sept. 1969

Box 37

United States Senate - Hearings before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, March-April 1969

Box 37

United States Senate - S.1075, 18 Feb. 1969

Box 37

United States Senate - Santa Barbara Oil Pollution: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs , 19-20 May 1969, 13-14 Mar. 1970, 21-22 July 1970

Box 37

Water Pollution - 1969: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works, Part 2: 5-6 Feb., 1969

Box 37

Water Pollution - 1969: Hearings..., Part 3: 24-25 Feb. 1969

Box 37

Wayland, Russell G. - Memo to Director: Santa Barbara Channel Report, Dec. 16-21, 1969, 31 Dec. 1969

Box 37

Western Oil and Gas Association - California Gray Whales, ca. Apr. 1969

Box 37

Western Oil and Gas Association - Testimony re S.1219, May 1969

Box 38

Wilcox, Dr. Howard A. - The Impact of the Big Santa Barbara Oil Blowout, 1970

Box 38

World Life Research Institute - Curriculum Vitae, 1971

Box 38

Miscellany, ca. 1967

Box 38

Earthquake Data, 1941, 1968-1971

 

Environmental Movements and Agencies

Box 38

Coalition on Oil, 1 June 1972

Box 38

Community Environmental Council: A New Beginning (formerly January 28 Committee), ca. Mar. 1970

Box 38

Council for Planning and Conservation Newsletter, June/July 1969

Box 38

Defenders of Wildlife News: Letter to Dick Smith, 1969

Box 38

Environmental Defense Fund, ca. 1967

Box 38

Environmental Quality Advisory Board, 1970

Box 38

January 28 Committee, 1970

Box 38

Massachusetts Audubon Society Newsletter, April, May-June, 1969

Box 38

McGraw-Hill's Air & Water News, 10 June 1969

Box 38

Planning and Conservation League, 1970

Box 38

Public Interest Briefs, Winter 1975

Box 38

Royal Bank of Canada, Monthly Letter, Feb. 1969

Box 38

The Santa Barbara Declaration of Environmental Rights, [1969?]

Box 38

Santa Barbara Oil Symposium, 17 Dec. 1970

Box 38

Save Our Bays Association, 1972

Box 38

Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, Inc., Dec. 1969

Box 38

Seashore Environmental Alliance, July, Aug. 1974

Box 38

Sierra Club Oil Group, no date

Box 38

South Central Coastwatch Newsletter, Oct. 1975

Box 38

Survival Times, July, Sept. 1970; Mar. 1971

Box 38

Wilderness Report, Feb., Sept. 1969; Dec. 1974

Box 38

Wilderness Society - The New Conservation

Box 38

Wildlife Protection Patrol

Box 38

Miscellany, 1969-Sept. 1971

 

Historical and Background Material

Box 39

1911

Box 39

1948

Box 39

1950-1951

Box 39

1954

Box 39

1956-1970

Box 39

Undated

 

Oil Industry

Box 40

Articles, 1969-1971, 1977

Box 40

Humble Oil and Refining Company Materials, 1970

Box 40

Union Oil Co. Materials, Feb-Aug. 1969

Box 40

Other Companies, 1970

Box 40

Miscellany, ca. 1969

Box 41

Press Releases and Related Material, 1969-1971

 

Research Notes and Manuscript Fragments (mostly undated)

Box 41

Birds

Box 41

Brown, Lt. George, III

Box 41

Costs of the Spill

Box 41

Environmental Movements and Agencies

Box 41

Evaluation

Box 41

Fish

Box 41

Government

Box 41

Labor

Box 41

Media

Box 41

Outline (story of the spill and its aftermath)

Box 41

Personalities

Box 41

Political

Box 41

Science and Technology

Box 41

Smith, Dick

Box 41

Symposium, April 1969

Box 41

Tankers

Box 42

Toward the Future

Box 42

Miscellany

 

Photographs - Black and white prints

Box 43

Easton, Robert - Mammals mostly (14 prints)

Box 43

Easton - Miscellany (21 prints)

Box 43

Ptaszynski, William - Birds mostly (23 prints)

 

Photographs - Black and white negatives

Scope and Content Note

Many by Dick Smith.
Box 43

Animals and Birds (42 strips)

Box 43

Beaches (14 strips)

Box 43

Divers (26 strips)

Box 43

Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve #1 (2 strips), Sept. 22, 1973

Box 43

Godfrey, Arthur (2 strips)

Box 43

Harbor and Clean-up (11 strips)

Box 43

Hill House (73 strips)

Box 43

Life Magazine - general photos (2 strips)

Box 43

Life Magazine - trip to San Miguel: Animals and birds (15 strips)

Box 43

Museum Exhibit (1 strip)

Box 43

1969 Aerial Views (50 strips)

Box 43

Oil Pick-up Devices (16 strips)

Box 43

Old Rigs at Ellwood Beach (6 strips)

Box 43

Old Summerland Oil photos (15 strips)

Box 43

Platforms (39 strips)

Box 43

Pre-Oil Ocean (10 strips)

Box 43

Protesters (3 strips)

Box 43

Yannacone, Victor - EDF Lawyer (5 strips)

Box 43

Miscellany (73 strips)

 

Bullying the Moqui - Robert Easton and MacKenzie Brown, eds.

Box 44

Re Charles Lummis and Moqui Indians - reviews

 

California Condor - by Dick Smith and Robert Easton

Box 44

Typescript draft and reviews

 

China Caravans (rev. ed. of Guns, Gold, and Caravans)

Box 44

Copy marked up by ROE and reviews

Box 44

Collected Stories of Max Brand

 

Guns, Gold, and Caravans

Box 44-45

Manuscript drafts, reviews, and agreement with Capra Press

Box 45

The Happy Man

Box 46

The Hearing (1964)

Box 46

Life and Work (UCSB oral history with David Russell)

Box 47

Lord of Beasts: The Saga of Buffalo Jones (1961) - by ROE and Mackenzie Brown

Box 48-49

Love and War: Pearl Harbor through V-J Day (1991)

Box 49

Man in the Middle

Box 50

Max Brand, the Big Westerner (1970)

Box 50

Max Brand's Best Poems, editor (1992)

Box 50

Max Brand's Best Stories, editor (1967)

Box 51

One Writer's World

Box 51

Typescript autobiography about ROE's life and writings

 

Saga of California Series

Scope and Content Note

Includes numerous files on the Chumash Indians, as well as Blacks and the Spanish in California.
Box 52-53

Vol. 1: This Promised Land (1982)

Box 54-55

Vol. 2: Power and Glory (1989)

Box 56

Vol. 3: Blood and Money (1998)

Box 57-58

Vol. 4: Love and Destiny (unfinished)

 

Other related files

Box 59

Alpha Files

Box 60-61

Character Outlines

Box 62

Rough Notes and Outline

Box 63-66

Research Files - incl. Chumash

Box 67

U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California - technical reports, other documents and articles, 1960s

Box 68

Western Stories and Other

 

Series V:  Oversize

Box 69

Newspaper articles re ROE's father, Robert E. Easton

Box 69

Oil Spill - matted, b/w enlarged photos

Box 70

Awards

Box 70

Magazine articles and miscellany

 

Series VI:  Audiovisual

 

Audiocassettes

Tape No. A13143/CS

Robert Easton author of This Promised Land on KCRW radio, Jan. 25, 1983

Tape No. A13144/CS

Robert Easton interviewed by Michael Turner KCSN radio, Apr. 28, 1983

Tape No. A13145/CS

Robert Easton interviewed by Nancy Pearlman KMGG Environmental Directions, July 3, 1983

Tape No. A13146/CS

Robert Easton reminiscing about author Kenneth Millar, July 14, 1983

 

Videotape (VHS)

Tape No. V2162/VHS

Love and War: Pearl Harbor Through V-J Day, Robert and Jane Easton reading from their book, ABC network television, Home Show, Dec. 6, 1991